Starting Point

My Visual Arts course this year will be focused on painting. I had a lot of fun doing painting last year, I felt that I could really do my own thing and produce Art that I loved creating, and had a lot of freedom with my ideas. My Kaupapa for the year will be Horror. This is one of my favourite genres in movies/books so drawing and painting some of my favourite scary things is going to be really fun. There are heaps of things that fall under the category of horror so I know i'll be kept busy, and I can get creative by adding a twist to non horror things to add more creativity to my board.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

• What is one important lesson/moral of this story? How do we see this in the film?What is one important lesson/moral of this story? How do we see this in the film?

It’s okay to step out of your comfort zone, it’s okay to be different. Everyone’s unique in their own way.

• What is one event we see in the film that changes Charlie’s life forever? Why did you pick this event as a significant turning point for him?

The tunnel scene with Patrick and Sam, it was the moment he realized he really wasn’t alone and that in that moment he felt he belonged.

• Until the very end of the film, Charlie thought his Aunt Helen was one of his favourite people in the world. Why would he feel something like that, and why doesn’t he remember what she did to him?

She was the only one that he felt listened to him, she understood him. He felt guilty about her death and tried to forget. Was so traumatised that his brain tried to make him forget what happened and blurred it out from his memory.

• Stephen Chbosky (author/director) said he wanted to present a story in which there were no bad characters. Was he successful? Were there any bad characters? Justify your answer.

Yes there were bad characters. Yes multiple, the film showed us different types of abuse. Physical, Mental and sexual.

• The benefits of inclusivity
• The importance of participating in life
• The importance of love, friendship and family

Can you recall a specific scene or scenes which helped illustrate each of the three themes above?

When charlie gets invited to the party after the dance, Charlie putting his hand up in class for the first time, When Charlies brother and sister sit at the hospital with him and play cards.

Sentence writing Matse Tribe

The Matsé Tribe

In the last thirty years, the Matsés have become a largely settled tribe living mostly in forest settlements. They are a group of indigenous people of the Brazilian amazon. Their communities are located along the Javari River. As a tribe the Matsés are heavily involved in multiple agricultural projects and activities. Matsés healers have a deep understanding of how forest plants can be used to cure illness.To the Matsés, plants and animals have spirits just as humans do, and can ail or heal a human body. They've recently started to be open to communicating with the outside world, and be more involved with the modern communities, While of course still living their lifestyles. No longer living in isolation the Matsé tribe of the Amazon is starting to and will continue to grow.

Passion projects

Logbook: Monday 2nd December 2018

Today I'm going to help with putting our practical together.

Passion projects

Logbook: 29th November 2018

Today we are going to cook and attempt to create our bolder. I'll also be painting and helping to put everything together. Practical should be finished by the end of today. 

Logbook

On Thursday we need to put everything together and prepare fully for presentation day

Passion project

Monday 26th November: The aim for today is to really get cracking onto our practical. I've been helping make a mock version of our project, and have gotten started on painting and paper macheing my sun.